However, the incident highlights a broader concern regarding the use of chatbots such as ChatGPT. As the chatbot’s data policy states, unless users explicitly opt-out, it uses their prompts to train its models. OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, urges users not to share secret information with the chatbot in conversations as it’s “not able to delete specific prompts from your history.” The only way to remove personally identifying information from ChatGPT is to delete the user’s account, which can take up to four weeks.
